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...Mitchell led an international fact-finding team looking into the roots of the Palestinian uprising known as the Intifadah. He drew a line connecting Palestinian anger to the spread of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and that line is still there, only more indelible. The leftist Hebrew daily Ha'aretz on Friday published a confidential report from the Israeli defense ministry stating that over 75% of construction in settlements ever built was done without the proper permits, and much of the building was carried out illegally on private Palestinian land...
...newspaper said Defense Minister Ehud Barak blocked publication of the data, arguing it could endanger state security or harm Israel's foreign relations. But the leaked report will make it easier for Mitchell to renew his eight-year old argument that the growth of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank is an obstacle to the elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...That doesn't mean, of course, that the new Israeli premier - probably Netanyahu - is going to listen. During his campaign this past week, he claimed that he would allow West Bank settlements to expand. (Last year, according to the Israeli human rights group Peace Now, settlements grew by 69% over the previous year.) If Netanyahu insists on refusing to close down the settlements, it may be the Israelis that the Obama Administration and Mitchell find themselves lecturing...
...have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang-unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...
...each Saturday in February starting at 5:30 p.m. Stick around afterwards and have dinner at Danny Meyer's Modern restaurant, where the duck confit can't be beat. The tours are $200, but members get $25 off this price. Feb 7, 14, 21 and 28. 11 West 53rd St.; 212-708-9685 groupservices@moma.org...